"Snakes on a Plane"

Snakes found in luggage at Ga. airport

In this short article I found on the San Antonio Express-News web, it was reported that numerous snakes, a dead bird and dead bird pieces were found in a man’s luggage bag at an airport. Stories that feature oddities are much easier to get creative with, but this story could have veered off into a number of topics. I chose this story because it seemed like if I was scanning over a news website and saw this multimedia I would stop and look over it myself.

Multimedia type 1:
In the article it mentions briefly that the man may be faced with possible fines. By researching into illegalities of this particular transportation and speaking with the federal wildlife officials I would hopefully be able to attain some sort of document outlining the “do’s and don’ts” of this type of situation.
By putting a link or image along with this article, on-lookers would be able to find out more information by being researchers, in a way, themselves.

Multimedia type 2:
Create a photo slide show of the pictures the officers and media took after discovering the man’s unique luggage.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution online is the only web page I found with some sort of multimedia picture [shown on right]. This picture would be included in the slide show.
I would also include more similar pictures of the contents, a picture of the man apprehended and pictures captured during the detaining by the officers.

Multimedia type 3:
Create a picture informing graphic hover that would allow viewers to place their computer mouse over an image and be able to read about the dangers of the different types of snakes: i.e. if the man had the venomous black mamba [shown on right] as one of his jarred contents there would be a picture with a hover box saying such information like:
“The black mamba receives its name from the black coloration inside of its mouth. It is the fastest moving snake in the world and one of the deadliest. A single bite may inject enough venom to kill up to 20 to 40 grown men.”
I would have this type of information and graphics for every unusual item that was in his bag.

Multimedia type 4:
Find the passengers that were on board the same flight and discoverers of the contents and ask/video-graph their opinions about the unique contents of the bag. Ask how they would feel if the snakes were alive but still contained as well as other relevant questions pertaining to the story.
With the footage I would create a short documentary. To make it a bit more interesting and dramatic I would relate/spoof it to the movie trailer of “Snakes on a Plane.” Given that no one was hurt the video would not be inappropriate.